Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Triton vulgaris subsp. typica forma lantzi Wolterstorff, 1914, Abh. Ber. Mus. Nat. Heimatkd. Magdeburg, 2: 375. Syntypes: MM; destroyed in W.W.II. Type Localities: "Novorossiisk", "Borjan (Boshan)", "Poti", and "Borjom (Borshom)", northwestern section of Caucasus Mountains, Georgia. Placed on Official List of Specific Names in Zoology (and validated) by Opinion 642, Anonymous, 1962, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 19: 280.

Molge vulgaris lantzi — Nikolskii, 1918, Fauna Rossii, Zemnovodnye: 231.

Triturus vulgaris vulgaris forma lantzi — Herre, 1933, Zool. Anz., 104: 191.

Triturus vulgaris lantzi — Krasavtsev, 1940, Trudy Voroshilovskogo gosudarstvennogo Pedagogicheskogo Instituta, 2: 166-192. Terentjev and Chernov, 1936, Brief Guide Amph. Rept. USSR: 60.

Lissotriton lantzi — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009, Alytes, 26: 40.

Lissotriton (Lissotriton) (vulgaris) lantzi — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009, Alytes, 26: 66.

English Names

Caucasian Smooth Newt (Steward, 1969, Tailed Amph. Eur.: 40).

Distribution

Northeastern coast of the Black Sea in Russia south and east Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan, possibly to extreme northeastern Turkey.

Comment

Tuniyev, 1999, Adv. Amph. Res. Former Soviet Union, 3: 50-51, discussed the status of Triturus vulgaris lantzi. Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009, Alytes, 26: 40, discussed their reasoning for recognizing this as a species distinct from Lissotriton vulgaris. See comment under Lissotriton vulgaris.

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